Researchers Develop Method That May Help Diagnose Mitochondrial Diseases

Scientists have developed a new strategy for diagnosing mitochondrial diseases and identified the Mrps34 gene as a cause for Leigh syndrome. The study, “Biallelic Mutations in MRPS34 Lead to Instability of the Small Mitoribosomal Subunit and Leigh Syndrome,” was published in The American Journal of Human Genetics. Diagnosing…